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Unstable Climate Oscillations during the Late Holocene in the Eastern Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Boo-Keun Khim ,
Ho Il Yoon ,
Cheon Yun Kang  and
Jang Jun Bahk
Boo-Keun Khim*
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Science, Pusan National University, Pusan, 609-735, Korea
Ho Il Yoon
Affiliation:
Polar Sciences Laboratory, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, P.O. Box 29, Ansan, 425-600, Korea
Cheon Yun Kang
Affiliation:
Polar Sciences Laboratory, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, P.O. Box 29, Ansan, 425-600, Korea
Jang Jun Bahk
Affiliation:
Marine Environmental & Climate Change Laboratory, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, P.O. Box 29, Ansan, 425-600, Korea
*
1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Fax: 82-51-581-2963. E-mail: bkkhim@pusan.ac.kr.
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Abstract

Core A9-EB2 from the eastern Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula, consists of pelagic (diatom ooze-clay couplets and bioturbated diatom ooze) and hemipelagic (bioturbated mud) sediments interbedded with turbidites (homogeneous mud and silt–clay couplets). The cyclic and laminated nature of these pelagic sediments represents alternation between the deposition of diatom-rich biogenic sediments and of terrigenous sediments. Sediment properties and geochemical data explain the contrasting lamination, with light layers being finer-grained and relatively rich in total organic carbon and biogenic silica content. Also, the high-resolution magnetic susceptibility (MS) variations highlight distinct features: high MS values coincide with clastic-rich sections and low MS values correspond to biogenic sections. The chronology developed for core A9-EB2 accounts for anomalous ages associated with turbidites and shows a linear sedimentation rate of approximately 87 cm/103 yr, which is supported by an accumulation rate of 80 cm/103 yr calculated from 210Pb activity. The late Holocene records clearly identify Neoglacial events of the Little Ice Age (LIA) and Medieval Warm Period (MWP). Other unexplained climatic events comparable in duration and amplitude to the LIA and MWP events also appear in the MS record, suggesting intrinsically unstable climatic conditions during the late Holocene in the Bransfield Basin of Antarctic Peninsula.

Keywords

organic carbonbiogenic silicamagnetic susceptibilitypaleoproductivityclimateLate HoloceneBransfield BasinAntarctic
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Quaternary Research , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , November 2002 , pp. 234 - 245
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University of Washington

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